These morning parades are part of a new chaos throughout the neighborhood. Locals say a crush of trucks and vans now clog its streets, jostling for space with buses, plus pedestrians, bikes, and scooters.
All this activity is monitored by two additional traffic sensors, in addition to the one at the Record Shop. Read more about our methodology, below.
A second sensor looks down from atop an upholstery store about a half mile up the street. There, the morning uptick is far higher than the peak at the vinyl shop: This sensor typically sees about 105 trucks and vans an hour pass by between 10 a.m. and noon. On particularly busy days, that number can nose up above 140 trucks an hour.
On several occasions, this sensor counted more than 1,200 trucks and vans over the course of a day—and that’s likely an underestimate, because the sensors can miss vehicles when it’s…
